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deorestan þæt is
dohtor min
eacen uploden; swa þæt is ældum cuþ,
firum on
folce, þæt seo on
foldan sceal on
ealra londa gehwam lissum stondan.” A rare,...
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geardum ("young in the yards", i.e. "young in the courts"), and line 14's
folce to
frofre ("as a
comfort to his people").
Kennings are a
significant technique...
- leod-hryres lean
gemunde uferan dogrum,
Eadgilse wearð fea-sceaftum feond.
Folce gestepte ofer sæ side sunu
Ohteres wigum and wæpnum: he gewræc syððan cealdum...
- an
Irish name
whose meaning is "Princess of the People"
Fremu (titled
folces cwen
meaning "people's princess"), the
queen consort of King Offa from the...
-
using the Old
Testament image of the
shepherd patriarchs of
Israel in the
folces hyrde (people's shepherd) of the Danes. The
general structure of the poem...
- lices. Lig
ealle forswealg, gæsta gifrost, þara ðe þær guð
fornam bega
folces; wæs hira blæd scacen. A
funeral pyre was then prepared,
effulgent gold...
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Untitled (Napier XXIV) To
Folce (Napier XXV) To
Eallum Folce (Napier XXVII) Be
Mistlican Gelimpan (Napier ****V) To
Eallum Folce (Napier ****VI) Her Is Gyt...
- made by
Ernst A. Kock in 1920 that
fremu is not an
adjective modifying folces cwen "the people's princess" and
meaning "excellent" (which
would be inappropriate...
- been
composed by a
clergyman and
directed at a lay audience,
addressed as
folces manna in line 212, whom he
perhaps believed to have been
potentially misguided...
